tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5301921094273968911..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Marry Young Or Marry Later?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-64503500852278961432012-12-05T10:43:35.252-08:002012-12-05T10:43:35.252-08:00Regrettably, these are empty clichés, but they cou...<i>Regrettably, these are empty clichés, but they count as legal tender in the therapy world. When Zimmerman trots them out as though they showed her enlightenment, she is showing us that she has suffered much too much therapy.</i><br /><br />This is an excellent point I'd never thought of! Normal, well-adjusted people don't talk that way. Thus, if you see someone talking about how happy, happy, HAPPY their life choices have made them, but their language is burdened with all sorts of overworn therapeutic cliches, it's a sure giveaway that contrary to their claims, their life choices have in fact resulted in them requiring excessive amounts of therapy just to get by.The Deucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09664665914768916965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-91512982615799501272012-12-03T11:21:18.435-08:002012-12-03T11:21:18.435-08:00I note that Mormons don't have this problem.I note that Mormons don't have this problem.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-86667334116508939032012-12-03T05:19:20.856-08:002012-12-03T05:19:20.856-08:00The longer one waits the more set in their ways th...The longer one waits the more set in their ways they become until there is very little in the way of compromise because there are so few areas in which it can happen. A good strong marriage takes a LOT of compromise and willingness to do it.<br />Generally, if one has grown to a reasonable facsimile of adulthood then the younger one is the easier it is to withstand the pressures and strains that marriage and children add to one's life and the more likely one is going to be a parent and NOT a friend.<br />The older one is the more one becomes a friend which almost always leads to disaster for the growth and success of the children involved. The more likely one has a single child, invariably an adjunct instead of a part of a couple's life, who has no competition from siblings so, in many cases, becomes very selfish and less likely to want to compromise and play nice with others. Beginning to believe, as a parent, that you can manipulate the master manipulators through therapy never turns out well. Children almost always know you better than you know them.<br />The art of life, and almost any endeavor, is the ability to compromise when it does not devalue one's principles. This is given that one has some moral base from which to work from.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.com